Madeleine McCann: Mafia, A Bag Of Clothes And Missing Children
MADDY WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
NEWS OF THE WORLD: “Maddie DNA clue in airport bag”
A bag of clothes containing “DNA linked to Madeleine McCann” has been found dumped by a road in Portugal.” It is a white carrier bag. It was in a layby two weeks ago near Faro airport.
“The bag contained a blue fleece jacket and a pair of adult jeans with traces of DNA that contained ‘moderate’ links to Madeleine”. And: “There was also a SHOWER CURTAIN inside.” And a white flannel, a green elastic band, a light green child’s T-shirt with a green flower on the front and a pink and blue pencil case with a pink heart motif
“Godfather in Madeleine hunt… Crime godfathers in Morocco—where there have been several alleged sightings of Maddie - have been told cops will scale back drug busts if they do”
SUNDAY MIRROR front page: “MY LITTLE MADDY” - a picture of Madeleine McCann on a pony with Kate McCann by her side
• “McCanns heartache as Cops say: “Case closes in 7 weeks
• Police to leave cloud of suspicion over Kate and Gerry”
SUNDAY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE MYSTERY – McCANN FRIENDS TO BE NAMED AS SUSPECTS”
“Dr Russell O’Brien and his partner Jane Tanner, Matthew Oldfield and Dr David Payne were last night forced to bring in their own lawyers after increasing fears that Portuguese police were preparing to implicate them in the case of the vanished four-year-old girl”
So will they be named as suspects or not? The Express say yes and then prevaricates
DAILY STAR ON SUNDAY front page: “MADDIE SIX MONTHS ON – 15 NEW CLUES”
That picture of Madeleine McCann on a horse. A clue?
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “ANSWER OUR PRAYERS - ON THE SIX-MONTH ANNIVERSARY OF LOSING MADDIE Kate weeps at church service for Maddie as parents suffer crushing blow”
“The devout couple first took two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie for ‘a few moments of solitude’ at their village church to remember missing Maddie”
A solitude watched by person who told the press? No need with Clarence Mitchell to fill in the gaps, Says he: “Kate and Gerry wanted a few moments of solitude praying for Madeleine with the twins”
Inside the church: “A collage of pictures of a happy Maddie - including the one…of her sitting on a black Shetland pony - took pride of place near the altar. Six snaps of the youngster next to smiling faces of other missing children were pinned onto a green notice board. Supporters were encouraged to look at the pictures before praying”
And they pray for…
The People looks at “respected” Portuguese daily Publico, which tells: “Six months on from Madeleine’s disappearance, the police theory remains the same. That the child died by accident in her room - and her parents committed the crime of hiding her body”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine’s parents hold prayer vigil six months to the minute after she disappeared”
There are about 200 people at the “700-year-old church” near Rothley, Leicestershire
The McCanns are suspects
“Other missing children - including British toddler Ben Needham, who disappeared while on holiday in Greece in 1991, were also remembered at the service”
Did Ben Needham’s family ask for this? Want it?
Says the Rev Rob Gladstone: “Comfort and liberate all those, especially young children who have been taken from their families against their will, give courage to their grieving families”
A board says “Pray for all missing children.” How were the faces on the board selected? Many children are missing
THE INDEPENDENT: “Six months after Madeleine, another 600 are still missing”
Missing persons charities yesterday released figures “showing that more than 600 children have been missing in the UK for as long as Madeleine McCann, and are still unaccounted for”
Many are foreign. Many are teenagers. Not all are blonde
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Prayers for Madeleine McCann, six months on”
“The 3,500-strong population of Rothley - its trees decked in yellow ribbons and messages of support - came to a near standstill as Kate and Gerry arrived from their nearby home”
Locals can’t move for the press?
Rothley is an “affluent Midlands enclave”. This is McCann Land – the enclave - a small territory culturally and ethnically different form the surrounding lands
Says Gerry in his blog: “We have no idea whether she is suffering, but we have to hope and pray that she is being treated like a princess, as she deserves”
THE GUARDIAN: “Madeleine book notes the ‘contradictions’”
More on Maddie 129, a book by Hernani Carvalho and Luis Maia
“The message is that the case just doesn’t add up,” says a representative of the book’s publishers
THE SCOTSMAN: “Six months on, McCanns in new Maddie plea”
The picture of Madeleine on a Shetland pony was taken on a day out at the Hatton Country World park in Warwickshire on April 13 – “less than three weeks before she went missing”
THE TIMES: “Gerry McCann: ‘our princess prayer for Madeleine’”
Gerry McCann’s blog: “It is so painful for us simply being separated, but all the more distressing when we have to speculate about the situation Madeleine finds herself [in]. We have no idea whether she is suffering but we have to hope and pray that she is being treated like a princess, as she deserves”
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November 4th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/fun/wordplay/proverbs.html
November 4th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
661 Matt. said:
“I only served to destabalise and destroy their credability”
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Clarence would have a good case.
(damn, I’m still here!…)
November 4th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
651
Bishop Brennan
….as slippery as an eel.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Yesterday was this post from Kris:
816 Kris Says: November 4th, 2007 at 6:19 am
I wonder if Stevo is happy now that there are many new private family photos in the public domain???
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REPLY:
No, I’m not happy and your post proves you don’t read mine properly. For weeks I’ve been asking for more photos from their holiday in Portugal. I have never said they should publish more photos from the past. There’s many photos from the past but they are irrelevant in the context of this case. And didn’t they publish another “2″ photos? Where are the “many new private family photos”?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Josef
Possibly because the British papers take care always to use “sources”, quoting the Portuguese press or mysterious PJ sources. Have you seen any direct accusations of there being evidence of Madeleine’s body having been in the car? These suggestions are often actually in quotation marks. “Who…….us?” would bleat the Daily Excess. “But we were only quoting what those nasty, nasty xyz were saying”!
I can’t say about the Portuguese papers. Maybe if cleared of their arguido status they WILL sue one or more. Don’t know exactly what they’ve said.
Cowardly rags usually rely on the fact that they are quoting from others.
But maybe, as I suspect you think, they don’t sue because they know that they DID transport her body in their hire car and bury it on the way to Fatima…….presumably working at the double when the cameraman nipped out of the car to relieve himself behind some bushes.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
625
Stevo Says:
November 4th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
610 Bishop Brennan
I tend to agree with a lot of Judith C’s posts but I strongly disagree with her comments saying you shouldn’t compare humans to animals. We compare humans to all kinds of things. Don’t we call people “robotic” or have sayings like “slept like a log”?
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With all due respect, what’s this got to do with the conflation of wicked human behaviour with animal behaviour? Calling people “robotic” or saying “slept like a log” is describing comparative behaviour, albeit in the log’s case of an inanimate object - he/she is like a robot…I slept like a log.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
656…Remigius
Indeed Remigius.
No criminal can escape the scan of
the “Suspect Rating Radar”. !!
November 4th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
657 Wanderer
Ohhh! Got it!! Thanks very much.
I have to pull myself away and tend to my family’s needs. This site is so damn addicting. (My son is hoping that Baby Grace turns out to be Madeleine so that maybe then I’ll give up Anorak, if the mystery is solved. I suspect that I’d still follow the case as it continues to unfold.)
Good day/night, everyone! and thank you!
November 4th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Question to Maria:
Why do you think the McCanns aren’t taking legal proceedings against newspapers reporting traces of Maddie’s dead body in their hired car?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
651
Bishop Brennan
Floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
502 Louise Says:
484 Maria
Edit….
Which is bizarre really when we still have no proof Madeleine is dead.
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“We” may have no proof that Madeleine is dead. However, if repeated media speculation from sources close to somebody who might have something to do with investigation are to be believed, the PJ seem fairly convinced that Madeleine is a long time dead?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
639 SteveT
I thought it was Shaving Ryan’s Privates.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Clarence’s plea when in the dock..would
probably be…”Although it may, at first sight,
appear that I was “helping” my clients to
escape justice…May I suggest to the Court…
that I was incapable of such a ludicrous
suggestion. I only served to destabalise
and destroy their credability”
November 4th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
my server has the ram of an elehant (duel pronged euphamism)
November 4th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
651
Bishop Brennan
… as kind as a lamb.
… as cunning as a fox.
…more horney than a rhinosorus
November 4th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
hung like a donkey,the cunning of a fox, there is just toomany to mention
November 4th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Ade as Aunty Phil
Being mean to herself, in some twisted plan to become the next Goody?
Isn’t Ade a man? I don’t know, I don’t pay enough attention.
646
Jolie, I believe Pilgrim was trying to give you a big hint to their suggestions in post 496.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
650 Matt
Perhaps it just comes under “Suspects behaving incongruously.”
November 4th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
651 Bishop Brennan
Smart (sly) like a fox
Wise as an owl
November 4th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
651
Bishop Brennan
… a memory like an elephant.
…built like a donley.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
bloody hell bremner, bird and fortune… back later
November 4th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
stevet
checkout what shane diesel cals himself when he’s making movies, and try no to grin….
November 4th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
623 - Judith C
** “when humans are compared to animals they are only ever compared in a negative sense” **
Hmm. Not sure about that Judith: Are you an ‘early bird’ or a ‘night owl’; Do you ‘go like a rabbit…’ (I hear that you do…!); How about ‘doggy-style’… nothing negative about that!
Readers - do you know any positive saying from our animal friends? Write in. We will publish the best.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
640…Remigius
My ratings do not calculate such minor
foibles.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
635 maria
the lower field is full of sheep (all smiling I might add…) so it’s a bit crowdwd. Ted is having some difficlty taking off his Hunter wellies…
I try to reserve my insults to the target couple and their junta - a clear distinguishing feature between me and a McArse
I’d love to ba aMcPanjandrum though - maybe in another life…
November 4th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
631 Ade
Yes, I saw your post. It quite made me think.
It is a very blatant manipulation. And I do wonder at what point it might become criminal, to so mislead the police, the public….I don’t think that being a “media professional” should protect him. He’s being paid to do a dirty job, he is taking big risks….
November 4th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
643
Maria
You aren’t lost for words are you?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Pilgrim, are you still here?
Before I leave the site for the day, please put me out of my misery and solve the puzzle of Moderations new identity (identities).
Louise?
Helen?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
i think that should be shaving ryans privates
November 4th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
641…Ade
Glad you resisted the urge.
I, for one, can’t bear the sight of blood or
sounds of pain.